Behold the power of a completely arbitrary top # list! Not sure if they even bothered ranking them or if they just numbered them (and proper suspence dictates that the #1 should have been at the END), but that's a nice selection of badly made stuffs.
It's been too long. I had almost forgotton all too much of this game. It's better than I remember!
I'd make a journal of my progress, Weltall style, but I only thought of it when I was already over halfway t hrough the game. I'll just give you some highlights of WHY I STILL LOVE THIS GAME.
Completed Booster's Tower a bit ago, and yeeks, insane fun. Forgot about all the hilarity in there. If you want the definition of "inept villian", Booster is it. Well not quite, he's not exactly a villian so much as inept at LIFE ITSELF. He's basically completely confused about EVERYTHING.
He rides in on a train and takes off talking about how much fun you are going to have in his tower, then suddenly he gets off his train and runs the other way. Later, you have to play a minigame of dodging the snifits as they search through 4 curtains for Booster's Mario doll (there are 3 snifits, and the way they change their minds in ways that SCREW you is frickin' hilarious in it's insanity). By the end, Booster opens the last one and says "THERE HE IS!". Mario freaks out in typical hilarious Mario fasion before Booster says "it's up there, the doll's above that curtain!". You get the doll down and Booster THANKS you and gives you something for your trouble. After facing "knife guy" and "grate guy", you chase Booster up a hill (a minigame which, once again, Toad comes rushing in to explain) and the little conversation he has with Peach (or Toadstool as she was still known as back then) is comedy gold, as he tied her TO HIS BACK and then seems to have forgotten, so he turns around every time she talks (which in and of itself looks funny) and thinks she's playing hide and seek.
And then off to Marrymore (which as you might imagine is a resort town with a large cathedral where anyone who's anyone goes to get married). Many hilarities ensue, from Mario stepping on, and eventually fighting "ze cake" created by koopa chefs, to booster tasting the streams of tears coming from Peach's eyes "tastes like the sea, what is this liquid?", to Mario and the snifits all running around trying to find her various gear (shoes and crown, which is on Booster's head oblivious to him), which results in various people kissing other people in a bit of confusion (if you did it fast, Peach kisses Mario and Bowser and Booster kiss each other).
And, I love Bowser in this game! He's crying through the game over losing his precious "keep" to the smithy gang, and joins Mario's party. Meeting him in and of itself is funny. He turns around and you see giant tears streaming down his face and he turns right back around and starts talking to himself.
"Ack! He's here! Okay Bowser, gotta get it together."
"Hey how's it going?"
"NO! Not like that dummy! With CONFIDENCE!"
"What are YOU doing here?"
And then, finally, he decides to "do you a favor".
"Alright, I'll let you join the Koopa Troop." And then he forces himself into your party, where he uses chomp chomps as weapons (and also a weapon that lets him throw Mario AT the enemies), and has special abilities which involve snapping his fingers to summon various baddies to attack the enemies (like a big boo, or those mecha koopas).
So now, I've rescued Peach from Booster (who seems to have had a really good time and doesn't seem to have even noticed that a "rescue" was being attempted, and now wonders when the next princess will fall from the sky) and after a reunion at Mushroom Kingdom Castle (first appearence of Toadsworth is in this game, in the form of the Chancellor, and he's as worried about the princess as ever, younger looking though) which involves Bowser and Mario reenacting exactly what happened at the castle and Geno explaining that the star road is needed to grant the wishes of the people and without it, no wishes can ever come true again.
Peach: That's aweful, TERRIBLE! ... Isn't it?
Geno: Yes, for example if you got kidnapped Mario would never rescue you.
Bowser: Really? Then let's just forget about these silly star things anyway.
Peach: Then you can kiss your precious "keep" goodbye!
Bowser: WHAT?! Okay if the star road is gone, the princess is mine, but my castle is gone, and I'll never be able to take over the kingdom, but if the stars are there, then I get my castle back, but Mario will beat me and take the princess and... run that past me again?!
And then Peach sneaks out of the castle later behind the Chancellor's back and she goes into your party.
And so now I've gone past that and through the sea and beat Jonathan Jones the shark pirate and another member of smithy's gang (who forced me to temporarily give up a star by threatening to tickle the locked up townspeople), and have reached Monstro Town. Aside from a not so starry star and getting my arse handed to me by the very VERY tiny but ridiculously powerful "Jynx", master of martial arts, and getting challenged to find some flags by the 3 "musty fears", haven't done much here yet.
Anyway, had to share the retroventure with you because I forgot that this is one of my favorite RPGs evers. Only partly because the battles, as great and innovative (and expanded on in every Mario RPG since this one) as they are are actually less than half the fun to even be found in the game.
Plus, like it needs to be said that getting an invincibility star and instantly winning battle after battle by just running INTO the enemies on the screen and not even going through them is fun in and of itself. Levelups ahoy! (To a maximum of 30, and very SMALL numbers used to calculate experience, getting 10 XP is a LOT :D).
I've been out of the console market for some time now, so I would like to know if there are any more really good GC games coming out that I should be interested in, or has that ship already sank?
I would love to be able to play DS games on the big screen, ala the Game Boy Player for the Gamecube (LOVE THAT THING!). Anyone got anything in the works? Nintendo? Anyone?
I looked around, but I couldn't find any threads about this game yet. And really, it deserves one.
Anyway, I was checking out the games at my local Wal-Mart and this caught my eye. I'd played the original RoN, but I didn't really think very much of it. But, I'd heard some good things about RoL, so I decided to pick it up and see. I'm REALLY glad that I did, because this is an incredibly fun game and one that's well built [voice-acting aside]. The setting is a war between three rival species who are fighting for control. Not exactly anything new, but the three groups themselves are rather interesting. There's the Vinci, who use steam power; the Alin, who use lots of magic; and the Coutl, who are just really big and mean.
Gameplay is standard RTS stuff, but it's got some quirks that I like. For one thing, some units will have multiple characters in one group. So, if you select one, it will select them all. Also, I noticed that your units will often form up with the strongest units in front with the weaker, ranged units behind them and the hero characters in the back. Which is much better than having your archers run in front of everyone and get themselves killed. ases are centered around cities, which can be upgraded with various districts that attach to it and increase the number possible troops, amount of resources you can have at once, and so on.
The graphics in RoL are very good, although you'll need a fairly high-end rig to get it to run well. Things like buildings being ripped apart by explosions, the lush landscapes, huge cities, and individual units all look really good and the game itself has a great art style.
In other words, it's a good game and fun to play. The voice-acting is kind of bad though...
A deranged sex-fiend, but a genius nonetheless. I say this on the basis that lazy has helped me quite a bit in my writing. Basically, was holding fast to my belief that I was writing my story the way it should have been and disregarding everything else. I had quite a long dialog with lazy and I was hesitant at first to take his advice. Needless to say, lazy was absolutely right and since then I've completely changed my style of writing. My story has gone from a meandering, light tale of "what would life be like in the future" to a much more mature work of scifi adventure. And it's slowly becoming somewhat depressing. But that's okay, because the story itself has a lot more potential now than it ever did before.
So, if lazy tells you do to something, then you'd better do it! Unless it's something really crazy like he says sometimes...
Quote:Warner Home Video has disentangled the rights issues for Blade Runner to pave the way for a September reissue of the remastered "Director's Cut" version, followed by a theatrical release of a version promised to be truly Ridley Scott's final cut.
Variety says that Warner's rights to Blade Runner lapsed a year ago, but the studio has since negotiated a long-term license. The film, now considered a sci-fi classic, has had a troubled history from the start: When Scott ran overbudget, completion bond guarantors took control of it and made substantial changes before its 1982 theatrical release, adding a voiceover and happy ending. That version was replaced by the much better-received director's cut in 1992, but Scott has long been unhappy with it, complaining that he was rushed and unable to give it proper attention.
The helmer started working on the final cut version in 2000, but that project was shelved by Warner soon after, apparently because the studio couldn't come to terms with Jerry Perenchio over rights issues.
The trade adds that the restored "Director's Cut" will debut on home video in September, and remain on sale for four months only, after which time it will be placed on moratorium.
"Blade Runner: Final Cut" will arrive in 2007 for a limited 25th anniversary theatrical run, followed by a special edition DVD with the three previous versions offered as alternate viewing: Besides the original theatrical version and director's cut, the expanded international theatrical cut will be included. The set will also contain additional bonus materials.
